RAWALPINDI, June 25: As many as six people, including two women, were killed and 13 others injured in separate incidents on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.

In the first incident, one person was killed and 12 others injured when a gas cylinder exploded on Kuri Road, Chaklala, witnesses and victims said.

A truck carrying “oxygen gas cylinders” was being offloaded outside a hardware store when one of the cylinders slipped from the hands of a labourer and exploded, the witnesses said.

The iron splinters spread in all directions, killing Adnan, a 26-year-old employee of the gas cylinder company, who was offloading the cylinders, police report said.

The Waris Khan police have registered an FIR against the gas cylinder company’s management on charges of negligence.

In the second incident, two labourers were electrocuted and another burnt near AIlama Iqbal Open University, police and hospital authorities said.

Similarly, a youth was electrocuted in Kohsar police area on Tuesday, the police said.

In another incident, a man shot dead his wife over domestic disputes in Dhoke Kala Khan on Tuesday, the police said.

The accused managed to escape from the scene.

Meanwhile, a woman was killed after the roof of her house caved in at Kahala Village, situated along Chakri Road, the police said.

Multan Khan, the woman’s husband, told the Saddar Baruni police that he was sleeping in the courtyard of his house, while his wife, Nargis Bibi, was in a room when the roof collapsed.